The Miami Heat took a 2-0 series lead against the Charlotte Bobcats with a 101-97 win tonight. The Bobs made it interesting again, storming back late to get an opportunity to tie the game with 10 seconds left, just to watch Dwyane Wade strip Chris Douglas-Roberts and effectively end the game.

But after the game, all the conversation circulated around Josh McRoberts elbow to the throat of LeBron. Called a common foul on the floor, the discussion for the next few days will revolve around the nature of the foul – flagrant or nah?

We’ve been here before, right? Dallas and San Antonio duking it out in the postseason? One of the more vintage series of the playoffs took an interesting turn Wednesday night, as eighth-seeded Dallas clobbered their long-standing nemesis, 113-92. Monta Ellis led a balanced Mavs attack with 21 points (Dirk, Shawn Marion and Devin Harris all contributed more than 16 points), while Manu Ginobili (27 points) was the only Spur to ever find a rhythm.

The Portland Trailblazers take a 2-0 series lead over the Houston Rockets back to Portland after beating the Rockets 112-105. LaMarcus Aldridge is beginning to look like he’s making “the leap” from reserve All Star to franchise cornerstone after scoring 43 points, making Aldridge just the third active player to score 40+ in back to back playoff games (joining Kobe and LeBron).

Had he scored two more points Aldridge would have joined only Michael Jordan as the only players in the last 25 years to score 45+ in back to back playoff game, and this just a few days after joining a club that housed only Wilt Chamberlin. Aldridge is using this series as his coming out party and then some, scoring in just about every way possible, off pick and roll, pick and pop, post ups and isolations on the wings have all been a part of Aldridge’s arsenal. Much credit Blazers Coach Terry Stotts for going small and surrounding LMA with shooters and finding inventive ways to get Aldridge the ball in space so that double teams have become moot.

On the other side of the coin, James Harden is playing like he’s can’t wait for the season to end so he can get ready for the Drew League. Harden shot just 6-19 on his way to 18 points, and wasn’t able to draw the kind of fouls he’s accustomed to in order to up that point total. Harden has just plain looked out of sorts, and seems to be focusing on getting fouled too much, rather than attacking to score the ball.

It’s a shame that Harden barely showed up because Dwight Howard played the kind of first half that made Laker fans everywhere burn a few #Stay12 signs, scoring 25 points in the half. Unfortunately Howard wasn’t able to keep up that pace, scoring just seven points in the second half while he was saddled by foul trouble. Houston now travels to Portland down 0-2 in the series without Tracy McGrady on the other team to make a comeback seem even remotely possible. Without an answer for Aldridge the Rockets look done, and so too does Kevin McHale’s time as a head coach in Houston.

This would be considered a upgrade to McRoberts considering the nasty ass hoes from charlotte he probably has to deal with. Serbia, home of the finest ladies you’ve ever seen.. Your jaw would be sore from all them booty shorts during the summer, if you strolled through Belgrade

@Jay Greene Same here. I just counted… and I watch a total of 10-11 (that includes premium channels). I have hundreds of channels that I have never once even turned to. At least I know that I can decide which playoff game I want to watch with the revelation/discovery I made today. A lot of the extras come from wanting 1 channel (in my case it is NFL Network). In order to get the 1… you have to purchase a package of 100 extra on top of the extras.

yea I guess so, but I mean come man look at mc roberts arms, as big a lebron is he should have poped up like Jim Brown looked at him like ” you better go get a 2×4 if you think you’re going to stop me”

if someone would have hit Worthy or Magic like that Coop would have lit fire to that ass

it took a while for his team to come over, either they know he’s bitch made or just dont like him.

Said it before and I’ll say it again; Lebron’s acting is so bad he belongs in a Master P movie. MCBob hit him on the damn chin (might have been hard, but its the chin not the throat) and Lebron sold that hit like he got shot in the throat with a 12 gauge shotgun.

I think the Spurs underestimated the Mavs. During that 11 games win streak vs. Dallas , the Spurs won at least half of those games by 20 points. The Mavs finally got San Antonio’s attention. Game 3 will be fun.

– People are so consumed with “Where will Love go?” talk, but don’t realized Aldridge is a free agent after next season too. As for the series. The Rose Garden will be hard to win in, but I expect the Beard to return to full form.

No disrespect but fuck that Bron foul. L.A. has been putting on a damn CLINIC. also James in the playoffs is looking reeealll funny in the light. and his defense? Sweet James Jones man, please at least ATTEMPT to play on the other side of the court

LA is 1-1. They dropped a game at home. That’s not putting on a clinic. Portland though…

As for Harden… you can see why the Thunder didn’t want to pay him the max. Not good enough on D to be a part of the starting lineup, not worth the money for a 6th man. Plus he has that terrible habit of choking in the playoffs. Would the Thunder be better with him? Absolutely. Would it be worth the money? Maybe not.

Ah, makes sense now. Aldridge has been great, but part of it is that no one on the Rockets can guard him. He’ll have more trouble with pretty much every other team in the West. He’ll get his points but it won’t be quite so easy.

@Banksy 8-28 in game 1, 6-19 in game 2. I’m watching the game in which he’s inefficient as fuck and not a lick of defense is played. Is he putting up numbers? Absolutely, no argument there. Is he taking hella shots to do so? Yes.

Yeah Aldridge is eating Asik and Terence Jones alive inside and I don’t blame Kevin McHale, I blame Daryl Morey – the same way I don’t blame Frank Vogel, I blame Larry Bird. You (the GM’s built these teams) and so you can’t cry about how they perform when the playoffs are designed to expose the flaws of every team. The Rockets need a point guard and a four that can draw LMA away from the basket and make him work on defense as much as he makes their fours work when he has the ball. Hell two years ago during the lockout season they had both Lowry and Dragic – and both were allowed to walk.

Kemba Walker has to take over if the Bobcats want to avoid a sweep, for a few possessions toward the final buzzer he looked like he was back in MSG in a UConn jersey, he should’ve taken that last shot and MJ shoulda traded CDR for taking that ill-advised heat check three with about 50 seconds to go.

One of these games in Dallas you just know Dirk is gonna pull a vintage performance out, but the key is Tim going to pull one out too and Kawhi and TP. Manu did last night with 27 in 23 minutes. Its tough to read with the Spurs sometimes when Dallas knows them so well.

I love Kemba walker but he tends to get a lil Nate robinsony when he gets charged up he gets to chucking. Toward the end of that game he took like the last 7 shots and made like 1. He’s good but he has tunnel vision at times

Realtalk the lebron hate has GOT TO STOP!!
seriously y’all callin a man a bitch for a forearm to the face/chin/neck whatever y’all wanna call it I’m sure that shit hurt. He can’t grab his chin/neck at all? Let me hit you wit a elbow and see how tough you are.
This man just broke his nose going hard to the basket a couple of months ago and y’all still callin him a bitch? Smfh

And lamarcus Aldridge, I see you playboy but let’s keep it 100, he has the most favorable mismatch of all time with Terrence Jones, he is abusing him as he should. T jones has no business guarding him at all. He looking like Rasheed Wallace in 2000 with that sweet post game and outside jumper. Rockets are disappointing on all levels

The thing about Lebron is that no one doubts he’s strong, powerful, or an elite athlete. The problem is that he acts like he isn’t. Did he milk the foul a bit? Maybe. That one looked like it hurt, though. The issue is that he milks fouls and contact that never actually happened.

There’s a few levels to this. You don’t have to be a stoic tough guy all the time. No one expects that. Being an outright dishonest player, though? You lose respect fast. Are there Lebron haters? Sure, but the biggest issue is that he doesn’t have respect from the common fan. People hated Jordan and Kobe, but they respected them too.

you see the problem with that is, the common fans, are fuckin idiots. irrational, rabid, delusional, all of the above. they have selective memories are romanticize eras and players without ever checking the stats, checking the history, checking the tape.

you aint heard? mike jordan played 15 seasons and won 15 championships right?

lebron is the most hated athlete i’ve ever seen maybe even more than arod. its absurd at this point. its so delusional its almost funny.
“i heard that bitch ass nigga Lebron even cried when he was born, he’s such a bitch” lmao

its gotta be the strangest sports trend ive ever seen. we should be celebrating him and all he’s doing, but instead people spend more time picking nits off of nits to downplay him. i could not believe people after he scored 61.” it was only 61? Im not impressed he coulda scored 90 if he wanted to.” like, what?!